Three Yunnanese Jade Traders from Tengchong

Abstract

In this paper the author applies the genre of life stories connected to a long historical perspective to discuss the migration culture of Yunnanese traders from Tengchong, an important border entrepot that, for centuries, has witnessed the flow of goods and people between Burma and Yunnan , a southwestern province of China . These stories illuminate aspects of the social networks and of cultural mediation in migration culture.